diaetarius
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /di.ae̯ˈtaː.ri.us/, [d̪iäe̯ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.eˈta.ri.us/, [d̪ieˈt̪äːrius]
Noun[edit]
diaetārius m (genitive diaetāriī or diaetārī); second declension
- a slave responsible for room service, a valet-de-chambre
- a cabin steward on a ship
- (Late Latin) a slave or servant who serves at the dining table, a table waiter
- (Medieval Latin, by misassociation with diēs, “a day”) a day-labourer
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | diaetārius | diaetāriī |
| Genitive | diaetāriī diaetārī1 |
diaetāriōrum |
| Dative | diaetāriō | diaetāriīs |
| Accusative | diaetārium | diaetāriōs |
| Ablative | diaetāriō | diaetāriīs |
| Vocative | diaetārie | diaetāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms[edit]
- (valet-de-chambre): diaetarchēs
Descendants[edit]
- Ancient Greek: δῐαιτᾱ́ρῐος (diaitā́rios)
References[edit]
- “dĭaetārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- DIÆTARII in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- dĭætārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 517/3.
- “diaetārius” on page 535/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dietarius (subst.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 330/1